Lake views, California pours, Wednesday wins
Eatonton · American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · April 13, 2026
RagingWine reviewed The Overlook at Great Waters’s wine list and gave it The Reliable — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You open the wine list at The Overlook and you immediately know where you are: California, all day, with a view of Lake Oconee that honestly deserves better than a one-note list. It's clean, it's legible, and it's exactly what a resort crowd expects — which is both its strength and its ceiling. Wine Spectator has been handing them an Award of Excellence since 2017, and you can see why they keep earning it, even if they're not exactly pushing boundaries.
The 100-150 bottle list is a California greatest hits compilation — Jordan, Silver Oak, Stag's Leap, Duckhorn, Cakebread, Rombauer — and if that sentence just made you nod, you're going to be happy here. There's nothing adventurous lurking in the back pages: no Rhône, no Italian, no natural wine rabbit holes. What IS here is well-chosen within its lane — these are reliable producers making consistent, crowd-pleasing bottles, and the list doesn't try to be something it's not. The glaring gap is anything outside California; if you're hunting for a Burgundy or even a solid Washington State Cab, you'll come up short.
Ten to sixteen options by the glass, priced $9–$16, which is downright reasonable for a lakeside resort restaurant in 2024. Expect the usual suspects — a Rombauer Chard, something from the Stag's Leap family — poured at a pace that suggests the glass program gets rotated on resort timing rather than by what's exciting. Solid enough that you won't regret ordering a glass while you wait for your filet; just don't expect any curveballs.
Chateau Ste. Michelle Indian Wells Chardonnay 2021 — $42
In a list where everything else starts climbing fast, this Washington Chardonnay at $42 is the quiet overachiever. It punches well above its price point, and compared to the Cakebread at $65, it's the move if you want good white wine without the resort tax.
Duckhorn Merlot
Everyone at this table is ordering the Cab, and that's fine, but Duckhorn's Merlot is genuinely one of the best in California and almost always ignored in favor of its bolder neighbors. This is your chance to be right while everyone else is being predictable.
Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
At $145, Far Niente is a beautiful wine — but without retail data to cross-reference, that price at a resort restaurant almost certainly reflects a steep markup on a bottle that retails around $90-100. The Jordan or Stag's Leap gets you most of the way there for significantly less.
Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 + Filet Mignon
Jordan Cab at $95 is the textbook answer here, and it's the right one — the wine's restrained tannins and dark fruit don't bulldoze the filet the way a bigger Napa Cab might. It's the pairing the list was clearly designed around, and sometimes the obvious call is obvious for a reason.
Wednesday — Half-price wine night every Wednesday — the best reason to plan your Lake Oconee dinner mid-week.
The Bottom Line
The Overlook is a reliable, well-maintained California wine list in a genuinely gorgeous setting — come on a Wednesday when bottles are half price and that Jordan suddenly looks like a bargain. It won't thrill the adventurous, but it won't disappoint anyone who just wants a good glass of wine with a great view.
· Wichita · American
Dave & Buster's Wichita is not a wine destination — and the list makes no attempt to pretend otherwise. Fourteen labels of grocery-store standbys, no pricing transparency, and a venue where the primary business is flashing screens and redemption tickets means the wine program is essentially decorative. Order the cocktail, feed the machine, save the bottle for literally anywhere else.
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Augusta Road · Greenville · American
A 51-wine list: 20 white and sparkling, 31 red, with 14 wines posted as two-price pairs like 10/40 and the rest at a single price up to 140. Start with the 10/40 Alta Vista Malbec, or the Musset-Roullier Chenin Blanc at 55 if you want the list's only Chenin Blanc, and ask what the pairs mean before you order. This unrated guide covers the posted wine list, not service, storage or markups.
Montgomery · Cincinnati · American
A winery-restaurant list where nearly every wine is posted with a glass and a bottle price, from $9.50 to $25.00 a glass. Start with the Cooper's Hawk Lux Cabernet Sauvignon, which the menu lists beside the red wine braised short ribs, or the Cooper's Hawk Red at $10.75 a glass, and try the CHMX from Baja, Mexico on a weekday at the $8 Wine O'Clock price. This unrated guide covers the posted wine list, not service, storage or markups, so confirm availability.
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